Samuel Mark^[1]

Cal 1831 - 1895  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Samuel Mark
  Born	CALC 17 Mar 1831	near, Kemptville, Leeds & Grenville United Co's., Ontario   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203238821
  Military	Waterloo County Militia - Fenial Raids
  Occupation	1871	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Farmer
  Residence	1871	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1881	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Farmer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-124000
  Died	8 Nov 1895	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3, 5, 6]
  	Cause: cancer 3 months
  Buried	Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3, 6]
  Person ID	I124000	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Mark,   b. CALC 11 Jun 1797, , Ireland ,   d. 11 May 1878, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Mary Anne McLennan,   b. 1800, , Antrim, Ireland ,   d. 13 Feb 1884  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F210919	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Illingworth,   b. Feb 1837, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1914  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Children	1. Annie Adeline Mark,   b. 21 Aug 1864, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Aug 1960  (Age 95 years)   2. Mary Hannah Mark,   b. 16 May 1866, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Dec 1902, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 36 years)   3. William Manley Mark,   b. 8 Nov 1867, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Feb 1969, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 101 years)   4. Allan Alfred Mark,   b. 17 Jul 1869, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Aug 1936, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 67 years)   5. Frederick Alexander Mark,   b. 17 Jul 1869, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 30 Jun 1880, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 10 years)
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F30783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Samuel Mark Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1971 pg 20

  
  

• Notes

  Died. At his residence, Huron Road, Wilmot, on Friday, November 8th, 1895, Samuel Mark, Aged 64 Years, 7 Months, and 22 Days. The Funeral will leave his late residence on Monday, November 11th, at 2 o'clock P.M., for St. James' Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances please accept this intimation. Funeral Card __________________ August 27. Memorial services for Mrs. Samuel B. Cassel, 96, were held in the beautiful, well preserved St. James Anglican Church on the Huron Road, west of Haysville, where she had been baptized, confirmed and married. Annie was a daughter of Samuel Mark who participated on the side of the Tories in the 1837 Rebellion, and later with his wife Margaret Illingworth, settled near Haysville in Wilmot Township. Annie Mark married Samuel Bricker Cassel (great-grandson of Samuel Bricker, hero in Mable Dunham's book, "The Trail of the Conestoga"). The Cassels resided in the Haysville vicinity until 1916 when they moved to Kitchener where Mr. Cassel was active in public life, serving many years as county clerk and treasurer of Waterloo County.Mrs. D. D. B. Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1960 ______________ CHURCH HILL FARM. He who sees interest in relics of antiquity and articles that were useful before those who live in the present century were born, can revel to their heart's content if he pays a visit to this lovely old home. It is in the heart of an agricultural section especially favored by nature, and most beautifully adorned by the hand of man. The Church Hill farm derives its name from the fact that about one hundred yards to the northeast of the residence, on a slight incline, stands the English church, the first in the neighborhood. Through an opening in its wealth of evergreen foliage we get a glimpse of its square tower, a new feature erected for the reception of its monster bell, bequeathed by the late Samuel Mark in 1896. The land upon which the edifice stands, together with that taken up by its sacred dead, was given by the Canada Company soon after the Huron road opened up this section for settlement. The bell is probably the largest of any country church bell in Western Ontario. The residence of the Church Hill farm (is yet an unpretentious affair), but its environments are particularly homelike on account of its profuse dis- play of evergreen foliage and ornamental shrubbery, a feature for which the homes along the Huron road, from Haysville to its terminus, are most conspicuous. The farm, which comprises one hundred and three acres, is described as lot No. 28, second concession, three miles south of New Hamburg. It was originally part of a six hundred acre tract purchased from the Canada Company by the late Henry Puddicombe, and came into the possession of the late James Gordon Smith on February 25, 1838. It was then a dense wilderness. Smith was born at Rustico, Prince Edward Island, April 7, 1801, and died in 1871, aged 70 years. I take this record from the old family Bible, printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1795. He was a ship carpenter by trade. The farm, which he purchased for four dollars per acre, he cleared up himself. He experienced many hardships and privations after leaving his island home, having walked a distance of one thousand and ten miles before he reached his destination in the wilds of Upper Canada. His first trip was in 1836. But he remained only a short time, for we learn that after framing a barn for Henry Puddicombe he returned to Prince Edward Island, coming out again in 1838, bringing with him his wife and family. His son, William Glover Smith, became heir to the property. He was also born in Prince Edward Island, the date of his birth being February 28, 1833. He was married to Margaret Cullom in 1877. The fruits of this union were two children, one son and one daughter. The daughter is deceased, and Allen Radcliffe Glover, living with his widowed mother at the old homestead, is the sole surviving heir to the estate. The father had a wide circle of acquaintances, and his death, which occurred suddenly on May 10, 1899, was deeply regretted by his neighbors who had known him so long. At one time he was acting captain of the New Hamburg company of volunteers. He was a patriot of the true type and took an active and interested part in affairs military. He was among the first to answer the call for volunteers when this country was threatened by the memorable Fenian invasion of 1866. For meritorious services in that brief campaign he was one among other heroes recently recognized by the Government in the way of being awarded a medal. The mother and son expect soon to receive this emblem of gratitude from a grateful Government. Deceased was also a member of the Township Board of Health for many years. Allen Radcliffe, the son, is an energetic, enterprising young man. While the education he has received was only what the public school of his neighborhood afforded, he would be taken by the stranger as a bright, young college youth. He was born January 14. 1879. Though yet young in years he gives evidences of splendid creative ability, and manages the affairs of the farm in a manner from which much older heads could learn a profitable lesson. He has a remarkable penchant for preserving old family heirlooms, and his collection of articles of antiquity would supply a good-sized museum. Of the collection of old relics I will take pains to mention a few of the most rare: letter written on October 21, ... [not microfilmed] and minerals, Indian ornaments, an old bond dated September 6, 1787, a Ready Reckoner, 1790, a pair of brass spurs stamped with the year 1501, a walking hazel cane used in olden times for opening gates while on horseback, is 150 years old, clock brought from Barnstable, England, in 1799, a pair of deer horns which his grandfather purchased from the Indians, their dinners being the price paid, a set of tools brought from England in 1799. In addition to the latter list there are many articles of a later date. The collection of old coins is also a very rare and valuable one, and his collection of fereign and domestic stamps is one of considerable value. While enumerating this collection of things of a past day and generation, the writer had his attention called to a remarkable instance or kindness and consideration for man's noblest friend in the brute creation. In the stalls of the stable are three grey horses whoee respective ages are twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty seven, that have been in the possession of the family ever since they were colts. Despite their advanced ages they are still full of life and spirit, the oldest being used in ploughing sod at the time of my visit. For the past five months an unusual activity has been going on at the Smith homestead. This was the result of a decision to rebuild the old barn. The raising of the new bank barn, 62x72 in dimensions, in place of the old structure erected in 1846, took place on June 3rd, 1899. About 120 men were present to take part in the raising. Four purlin plates, each 60 feet long, taken from one stick of Wilmot pine by a whip saw nearly fifty years ago for the old barn, and perfectly sound to-day, were used in the new frame. Forty cords of stone were used in the foundations, which have been pointed in the best manner possible. The stables are floored with Napanee cement, the posts are of finely turned cedar, to be surmounted by neat ornaments, and the stalls, etc., are nicely finished in the best white ash lumber. The frame is enclosed with the best quality of planed lumber, battened and painted. Some 16,000 feet of lumber was used in its construction. The interior has been laid out in a manner to meet every requirement as to convenience. Tiny colt boxstalls, neatly finished and supplied with the latest improved troughs and fixtures for convenience in feeding the youngsters, is a feature that is strikingly novel in a farm building. Mr. Smith, the young proprietor, has devised a system of ventilation and waterworks for the new building that is worthy the special attention of farmers. The stables are supplied with water from a cement reservoir on an elevation a short distance from the barn. The top of the building is surmounted by three ventilators, the centre being an octagon from which will appear the figure of a horse. Behind the stabling is a long cellarway, with a capacity for 7,000 bushels of roots. I have visited a good many barns in the past year or so, but none have I seen where greater pains have been taken for convenience and neatness in the construction of a barn than in this one. Waterloo County Chronicle, 2 Nov 1899, p. 6 _________________ Mark, Samuel - The subject of this sketch was born in Kemptville, Grenville County, Ont., in 1831, the son of Samuel Mark, one of two brothers, the other being Alexander, who came to Wilmot in 1860 and located, Alexander on the farm now owned by Mr. Samuel Cassel, Reeve, and Samuel on the farm on part of which his grandson, Manley, is now living retired. Samuel Mark, the younger, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1863 to Miss Martha Illingworth, and has since his arrival in the Parish identified himself heartily in the work of the St. James' Church. He was many times Warden and delegate to the Synod. Two stained glass windows in the chancel and two memorial windows in the body of the Church are his gifts, besides a legacy at his death of Four Hundred Dollars mentioned elsewhere. He died in 1896 and is survived by his widow, two sons and one daughter, Manley William , on the homestead (retired), and Allan Alfred, a partner in the firm of Walker Parker Co., a large shoe manufacturing house of Toronto, and Annie Adelaide, Mrs. Samuel Cassel. Mary Hannah, Mrs. A. A. Barber, another daughter, died in 1902. Church of England, An Historical Sketch of the Parish of Wilmot 1828-1913, Diocese of Huron, Ontario, New Hamburg, Canada by Charles James Fox, Sep 1913 _____________ OBITUARY.-Two very sad events have taken place here within the last few days. One was the funeral on Friday last of Miss Annie Tye, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert C. Tye of this village, and the other that of Mr. Samuel Marks who died at his home Huron Road on Friday the 10th inst., and was buried last Monday. Miss Tye has been living for some time in Superior, Wisconsin, where she had made a large number of warm friends and her sudden death is deeply mourned by them as it also is by her relatives and friends in this vicinity. The late Mr. Marks has lived in this section of country for many years and had won the love and respect of everyone who knew him. He took an active part in the affairs of St. James' Church of which he was a member and his face will be greatly missed by the rest of the congregation. Waterloo County Chronicle, 14 Nov 1895, p. 8

  
  

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  [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 11769-85. 11769-85 Samuel B. CASSEL, 26, farmer, Blenheim twp., Wilmot, s/o Henry B. & Mary Ann, married Annie Adeline MARK, 21, Wilmot twp., same, d/o Samuel & Martha, witn: Harry MARK & Nettie RUSSELL, both of Zorra, 22 Sept 1885 at St. James Church, Wilmot twp [S140] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1881, Div. 4 Page 21. [S320] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - St. James Anglican CC#4571 Internet Link. In/ memory of/ Samuel Mark/ who died/ Nov. 8 1895/ age 64 years/ 7 m's, 22 d's/ This humble token of respect/ To thy loved memory we erect/ Though mouldering here the body lies/ We trust to meet thee in the skies. [S190] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1871, Wilmot Twp. 1871 Div. 2 Page 30. [S713] Vit - ON - Death Registration, death certificate. Samuel Mark, d. 8 Nov 1895 Wilmot, age 64 b. near Kempville, Grenville Co., cause: cancer 3 months [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203238821.

  
  

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  Born - CALC 17 Mar 1831 - near, Kemptville, Leeds & Grenville United Co's., Ontario Occupation - Farmer - 1871 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1871 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1881 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: cancer 3 months - 8 Nov 1895 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth